[Mephisto]

It's a bit sad that you ignored my Last post, Fyron, because I would really like to know what you have to say about my point there.

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The Odyssey is, for the most part, visions by various ancient Greek prophets and environmental effects attributed to the Greek gods.

IIRC the Ilias and the Odyssey are both "written" by Homer who was surely no prophet and never claimed to be one. He was a poet. There was no prophecy in the Ilis or the Odyssey whatsoever, it was already history. In large parts it is a very good description of various parts of the mediteran a story about how fruitless and destructive war is. The Ilias and the Odyssey are no religious text. True, the Greek Gods have an appearance but they only serve the story, the story is not about them.

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron: All of these arguments are nice, but they detract from the heart of the matter. None of you yet has successfully answered my question as to why you accept Christian mythology (please read back a few Posts to see what mythology is if you do not know the real definition) and reject all other mythology as being false. Why is Christianity so special as to be right, and everything else is wrong?

There is some scientific evidence that Jesus has really lived and had some influence around the year 30 of our time. He is mentioned in several different texts, some of them not religious but official roman Messages from Palestine to Rome. As all persons in history without their own coins you have to believe that a source text is valid about the circumstances and persons it reports about. How do we know that Lucius Cotta fought in the Roman-Gallic war? Well, Ceasar tells us so (Liber quintus, 37, (4)) and either we believe in this source or we don't. Just the same for the historical Jesus.
That said, the spiritual Jesus is a matter of believe and again sources. Either you believe it and trust the sources or you don’t. There is no other proof until we invent a time machine.

Many other claims from the bible we cannot prove and some are, as it seems, just wrong and fictions. To say that every part of the bible is true will most certainly fail the test but this is at least not my point.
Maybe we both, Fyron, were talking along different lines. But I got the impression that you rejected the possibility that at least parts of the bible could be right even if we cannot proof it scientifically. And that is IMHO just as false as to say that every part of the bible is true.
There are sources that talked/wrote about Jesus in old books (old Testament) and we have sources that claim that just what was told to happen in these books came through in their time (new Testament). Either you believe in these sources or you don’t. You will never get any harder proof. How could that even be possible? What proof would make you believe a source and what doesn’t? Do you believe in Cesar when he tells us about Lucius Cotta or don’t you? Why?